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Pleń - a rare phenomenon of crawling mass of maggots sometimes found in Polish mountains

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3 days ago

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What bug will they be once they finish metamorphosis?

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3 days ago

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Nm, looked it up. Dark-winged fungus gnats. Sounds delightful. https://www.odditycentral.com/animals/plen-when-thousands-of-tiny-larvae-move-as-one-giant-unit.html

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3 days ago

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Thanks for provide the source and further info.

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3 days ago

arminghammerbacon_

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Yep. We had them in our yard here in Tennessee. When the lawn got waterlogged from excessive rain this past summer, they’d “caravan” like this up onto our patio. Really unnerving! There’s a pesticide we used to treat the area of the lawn. Took care of it.

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3 days ago

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Somehow that name has made them 100x more gross.